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No. 227,548. Patented May 11, 1880 K O (/1, I

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JAMES LIVESEY, JOSHUA KIDD, AND JAMES KIDD, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR ENRlCHiNG GAS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 227,548, dated May 11, 1880.

Application filed February 25, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that W6,,JAMES LIVESEY, JOSHUA KIDD, and JAMES KIDD, all of London, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented certain new and useful Im- V proved Apparatus for Enriching Gas, which invention has been partly patented to us by the government of France by a certificate of addition dated 24th March, 1879, to French Letters Patent in the names of James Livesey and James Kidd, dated 23d January, 1878, No. 12,245; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. Our invention relates to apparatus for enriching gas by mingling with it the vapor of the hydrocarbon naphthaline, this apparatus being constructed as we will describe.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a section, of the apparatus applied to two burners.

A is a carbureting-vessel, which may be of spherical form, as shown, or it may be of any other convenient form. It has at the top an aperture, through which is fed the naphthaline in solid fragments orpellets N, this aperture being fitted with a screw-cap, B,by which it is tightly closed after the vessel is charged. The supply gas-pipe O enters the vessel at the bottom and passes with a bend upward, opening near the top to the interior of the vessel. To the two opposite sides of the vessel are attached pieces of metal, D D, which have wings projecting outward, constituting heating-plates, and which form sockets for the pipes E E, leading to the burners F. From the sockets of D D, inside the vessel, bent pipes G G extend upward, having lateral mouths opening to the upper part of the vessel. The wings of D D are heated by the flames of the burners F below them, and the heat is conducted to the vessel A, melting the naphthaline therein and causing vapor to be evolved from it. This vapor mingles with the gas supplied by the pipe 0, enriching it, and the enriched gas descends by the pipes Grand E to the burners F, where it burns with a highly-luminous flame.

The pipes G and E are arranged, as shown, so that they are kept hot by the heat of the flames, condensation of the hydrocarbon vapor being thus prevented.

For convenience of removing or replacing the apparatus we make the supply-pipe O with a coned nozzle, which fits into a socket, H, that is screwed onto any gas-bracket in lieu of the ordinary burner.

Although we have shown in the drawings two burners, F F, supplied from one vessel, it is obvious that there might be only one burner connected to the vessel A at one side of it, or there might be three or more connected around it, the dimensions of the vessel being suited to the number of burners supplied from it.

Having thus described the nature of our invention and the best means we know of putting it in practice, we claim in apparatus for enriching gas 1. The combination, with the carburetingchamber A, for containing the hydrocarbon naphthaline, of the laterally-projecting heatconducting plate D, having its inner end attached to the said chamber, the bent pipe G, secured to the heat-conducting plate within the chamber, and the burner-pipe E, connected with the said plate outside the chamber and communicating with the bent pipes through the heat-conducting plates, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of the carbureting-chamber A, having at the top a feeding-aperture closed by a screw-cap, a laterally-projecting heat-conducting plate (one or more) having its inner end connected with the chamber and provided with an interior and an exterior socket, to which the bent pipe G, within the carbureting-chamber, and the exterior burner-pipe, E, outside the chamber, are respectively attached, anda gas-supply pipe, 0, extending through the bottom of the carbureting-chamber into the upper portion of the same, substantially as described. I

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 19th day of January, 1880.

JAMES LIVESEY. JOSHUA KIDD. JAMES KIDD.

Witnesses:

J NO. P. M. MILLARD, OHAs. BERE Y HARRIS. 

